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MediaMath seemed destined for a $1B fairy-tale exit. Instead, most early investors got nothing.
Lara O’Reilly reported deeply on the decline of MediaMath, an adtech giant that seemed destined to make its investors, employees, and founders rich with a $1 billion exit. Instead, the company sold to private equity, leaving almost nothing on the table. It’s a business fairy-tale gone wrong.
Barbie is the star of the summer's hottest blockbuster. The much-hyped movie is the pinnacle of a 60-year history filled with rejections, lawsuits, and controversies for the world's most iconic doll.
Greta Gerwig tapped into the world’s need for something — anything — fun after the pandemic years with her loopy, fun take on Barbie. Did you know Barbie’s sometimes-controversial inventor was a woman, Ruth Handler, and her iconic toy would make her fabulously wealthy? Grace Dean delved into the history of Barbie.
GoStudent, the $3 billion edtech darling, scaled fast and partied hard. The result was a mess.
Tasmin Lockwood and Riddhi Kanetkar uncovered shocking incidents at GoStudent, the $3 billion SoftBank-backed tutoring platform that links up children with private tutors online. One father seeking a tutor for his daughter found one GoStudent candidate had been fired from his school for exchanging nudes with a female pupil. The company says it’s a different, better operation today.
Finland is the world's happiest country, but Finns say we're confusing happiness for something else
Finland is the world’s happiest country. But, as Bea Nolan discovered when she visited, Finns are pretty annoyed by this perception. They are happy, they said, just not in the way you think.
Ex-Facebook and DeepMind employees in talks to raise sizable initial funding round to build OpenAI rival
Everyone wants to find (and fund) the next ChatGPT. To that end, Europe’s venture capitalists are in a mad dash to back any continental company that could rival OpenAI — and they think they’ve found it. Callum Burroughs broke the news that former Meta and Google DeepMind employees set up Mistral AI, which produces its own large language models. It’s already worth $2 billion.
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